I drew down on my vacuum cleaner in the dark last night

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Posted: 3/7/2006 6:16:58 AM EDT

So at exactly 3:00 a.m. the wife and I are sound asleep when I am awoken by a subtile crash in the basement below. I laugh at what I presumed was our 15lb cat chasing bugs/mice/gremlins, until I felt him at our feet on the bed. In a split second I was up with my XD9 in hand, creeping towards the door. With senses at full alert, zero-to-adrenaline rush, my wife giving me the WTH, I ease around into the hall. There, a lone figure in the dark stood in the middle of the hallway some five yards away. I came about >this< close to wasting our vacuum cleaner.

Upon further lecturing, the wife will remember to put the vacuum cleaner up before bed when she's done with it, unless she wants to have to buy another.

ETA: Oh - and the crash was a board that had fallen over where I'd misaligned it on the basement wall.

Posted: 3/7/2006 6:18:50 AM EDT

[#1]

I almost drew down on a bunny that jumped in front of me while walking through the woods the other day.

Posted: 3/7/2006 6:20:14 AM EDT

[#2]

Bump in the night- Check
Gun in hand- Check
Flashlight- Um where wasthe flashlight?

Posted: 3/7/2006 6:20:32 AM EDT

[#3]

I was hoping for pics of the wasted vacuum cleaner.

Posted: 3/7/2006 6:20:49 AM EDT

[#4]

Quoted:
Bump in the night- Check
Gun in hand- Check
Flashlight- Um where wasthe flashlight?

Yeah yeah, I fully expect to get chastized for that

Posted: 3/7/2006 6:26:49 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Bump in the night- Check
Gun in hand- Check
Flashlight- Um where wasthe flashlight?

Yeah yeah, I fully expect to get chastized for that

Simple - he had NVG - RIGHT?

Posted: 3/7/2006 6:35:19 AM EDT

[#6]

Doesn't count unless you wasted it. Now that would be a thread.

Saw a guy on drugs get in a fight with a fire hydrant one time. Lesson learned, firehydrants kick ass.

Posted: 3/7/2006 6:45:46 AM EDT

[#7]

Let's, you and I, not go on any road trips together.

Posted: 3/7/2006 6:46:37 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:
Doesn't count unless you wasted it. Now that would be a thread.Saw a guy on drugs get in a fight with a fire hydrant one time. Lesson learned, firehydrants kick ass.

So true.

Posted: 3/7/2006 7:37:56 AM EDT

[#9]

I was laughing even before I opened the thread...thats funny.

Posted: 3/7/2006 7:39:34 AM EDT

[#10]

Every now and then something goes bump in the night.

We have a 4 legged early warning system that is very protective and will let us know right now if something needs our attention. If she goes ape and barks like mad, I investigate with Ruger in hand. If the dog doesn't go ape, I tend not to pay too much attention.

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:26:33 AM EDT

[#11]

I came home very late after a business trip. When I open the door, it's pitch black in the house. I look down though and see two red lights glowing about a foot off the ground and about twenty feet away.

I'm thinking WTF?

Then the "eyes" start running straight towards me!

I flick on the light only to see Jake, my labrador retriever with my daughters tennis shoe in his mouth with the LED's in the heel!

Ed

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:33:21 AM EDT

[#12]

Did you do the neccessary Ninja Roll? Where were your NVG? If no roll, did you at least rapell from the ceiling?

It's good you were alert enough to be stirred by the noise. It kills me how man people sleep with their gun nearby, but wouldn't wake up to the sound of a marching band! So, again, kudos on being alert, and double kudos for not shooting the Hoover. The wife would be pissed, and the cost to replace it would have killed your ammo fund.

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:37:58 AM EDT

[#13]

You let the hoover get the drop on you!

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:40:16 AM EDT

[#14]

jeez! i hope you don't have kids that need a glass of water in the middle of the night and drop the glass!

if you were about to waste a stationary vac, imagine what you would have done with a moving human shaped shadow!

buy a flashlight dude!

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:41:28 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Doesn't count unless you wasted it. Now that would be a thread.

Saw a guy on drugs get in a fight with a fire hydrant one time. Lesson learned, firehydrants kick ass.

Yeah, they're not real aggressive, but they can take a punch.

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:42:50 AM EDT

[#16]

I don't think I would admit that one to anyone.

Posted: 3/7/2006 11:44:57 AM EDT

[#17]

Quoted:
Doesn't count unless you wasted it. Now that would be a thread.

Saw a guy on drugs get in a fight with a fire hydrant one time. Lesson learned, firehydrants kick ass.

There should be a whole section on Arfcom with pics and stories: Household appliance o' Truth.

jim

Posted: 3/7/2006 7:36:24 PM EDT

[#18]

i've been debating on buying a flashlight for MY XD. this has me sold for sure now.

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:00:45 PM EDT

[#19]

That is a fat cat!

I once cleared my home when the alarm went off with a empty pistol.... My girlfriend at the time has unloaded it for a party she threw. Said it was because of the children coming over.... I asked if she was planning on letting them have the bedroom to play in?

I dumped her thirty days later when she demonstrated a pattern of iddicy just like that

.

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:09:39 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
Quoted:
Doesn't count unless you wasted it. Now that would be a thread.Saw a guy on drugs get in a fight with a fire hydrant one time. Lesson learned, firehydrants kick ass.

So true.

I remember a drunken high school campout party and watching the total dipship my favorite cousin was dating get into a fight with a pine tree.

He ran up to it and gave it a flying kick about 4 feet up... the tree bent back, his foot sliped off, and the tree snapped in the opposite direction of his kick (i.e., towards him), with a particularly large and knotty branch mashing him right in the face. Dude nearly put his eye out and was rolling around on the ground like a little baby. Had it been a few years later, someone woudl surely have been taunting hime: "You got knocked the FUCK out! "

Got damn, that was a nice memory to recollect! Thanks!

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:15:16 PM EDT

[#21]

those damn loud vacuum cleaners.

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:17:52 PM EDT

[#22]

What was it carrying?

It could've HOSED you!

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:18:18 PM EDT

[#23]

Exactly why a Surefire sits right next to my bedside weapon.

Posted: 3/7/2006 8:24:47 PM EDT

[#24]

I keep a BG 3 D delta target in my workroom. nothing like seeing peoples reactions when they spot it. At a glance it looks just like a guy holding a uzi at waist level.

Posted: 3/7/2006 9:12:20 PM EDT

[#25]

Quoted:
I came home very late after a business trip. When I open the door, it's pitch black in the house. I look down though and see two red lights glowing about a foot off the ground and about twenty feet away.

I'm thinking WTF?

Then the "eyes" start running straight towards me!

I flick on the light only to see Jake, my labrador retriever with my daughters tennis shoe in his mouth with the LED's in the heel!

Ed

I do believe I'd ruin my underwear.

Oh, and our vacuum cleaner has surprised the hell out of me a few times when I have gotten out of bed to take a piss. I'd glance down the hallway and jump about 3 feet when I saw it.

Posted: 3/7/2006 9:33:23 PM EDT

[#26]

Quoted:
I keep a BG 3 D delta target in my workroom. nothing like seeing peoples reactions when they spot it. At a glance it looks just like a guy holding a uzi at waist level.

When I was in an apartment, I had a poster of an Alien (from the movie) on the inside of the entry doorway. The poster was of the Alien breaking through a door. Always freaked out folks when they left my place...

Posted: 3/7/2006 11:17:53 PM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:
I was hoping for pics of the wasted vacuum cleaner.

Yeah, me too...

Posted: 3/7/2006 11:31:43 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
I almost drew down on a bunny that jumped in front of me while walking through the woods the other day.

Little bunny foo-foo, hopping through the forest, picking up the field mice and :BANG:

No more little bunny foo-foo....

No Expert

Posted: 3/8/2006 5:05:25 AM EDT

[#29]

Quoted:
those damn loud vacuum cleaners.

for real. I can't STAND the noise they make. It's the weirdest thing.

Posted: 3/8/2006 11:12:23 AM EDT

[#30]

JUst like the end of The Unit, with the monkey that repeated a phrase in Arabic.

Posted: 3/8/2006 5:45:59 PM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
That is a fat cat!

I once cleared my home when the alarm went off with a empty pistol.... My girlfriend at the time has unloaded it for a party she threw. Said it was because of the children coming over.... I asked if she was planning on letting them have the bedroom to play in?

I dumped her thirty days later when she demonstrated a pattern of iddicy just like that.

That's ok, honey...You've upgraded since then to Lioness with a CHL!!

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